facultas
See also: facultás
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *fakelitāts, related to facilis. Doublet of facilitās.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /faˈkul.taːs/, [fäˈkʊɫ̪t̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /faˈkul.tas/, [fäˈkul̪t̪äs]
Noun
facultās f (genitive facultātis); third declension
- ability, skill
- (in the plural) means, resources
- opportunity, chance
- Synonyms: opportūnitās, occāsiō
- faculty (group of teachers)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “facultas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “facultas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- facultas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- facultas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to give a man the opportunity of doing a thing: facultatem alicui dare alicuius rei or ut possit...
- to deprive a man of the chance of doing a thing: facultatem, potestatem alicui eripere, adimere
- no opportunity of carrying out an object presents itself: nulla est facultas alicuius rei
- oratorical talent: facultas dicendi
- to be very rich: opibus, divitiis, bonis, facultatibus abundare
- to give a man the opportunity of doing a thing: facultatem alicui dare alicuius rei or ut possit...
- facultas in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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